Southern Stereotypes Should Not Be Perpetuated

To the editors:



Charles Drummond’s column “Primetime Segregation” (Sept. 27) troubled me deeply. Although he is completely correct about the ludicrousness of the new “Survivor: Cook Islands” television show, I feel it was in horrible taste for him to nonchalantly compare an amped-up version of the show to the South. Articles such as this that paint the South as continuing to be a bastion for intolerance and racism in The Crimson make life significantly more difficult for Southerners on campus. How many times have you been asked at a party if you “don’t like black people” simply because you have a Southern accent, Mr. Drummond? I will suppose zero times. Have you, Mr. Drummond, ever ventured below Washington D.C.? I daresay you have not. Can Mr. Drummond actually claim he has never seen racism in the Northeast? He would be a fool to do so.



S. MARGARET SPIVEY ’08

September 27, 2006